Blood Town Podcast Examines the Acquittal in Marianne Shockley's Death

How a University of Georgia entomology professor died in a hot tub, and why her boyfriend was found not guilty

On Mother's Day 2019, Marianne Shockley, a respected entomology professor at the University of Georgia, died in a hot tub at a home in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her boyfriend Marcus Lillard was charged with her murder—but a jury acquitted him in April 2022, a verdict the Blood Town podcast examines in detail.